Container company Docker has acquired startup SocketPlane and its six-strong team to help add standard networking interfaces to Docker for increased portability of multi-container distributed apps.

News this morning that Docker, the home of the anonymously-named container infrastructure initiative, has acquired an early stage startup, SocketPlane. SocketPlane's small six-person tea will be ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Docker, Inc., the corporate sponsor of the open platform for distributed applications, today announced the acquisition of software-defined networking (SDN) startup ...

Docker’s recent advances have made it the darling of startups and innovators throughout the IT world, but one pain point causes admins and developers alike to bite their nails: networking. Managing ...

Despite all the hype about containers, the application packaging technology is still evolving, especially as relates to networking. In the past year though there have been significant advancements to ...

Docker allows you to create specific networks and attach containers to them. Here's how to make use of this highly flexible feature. Docker is one of the most flexible and user-friendly container ...

It’s fascinating to watch, seemingly overnight, a vibrant ecosystem being built up around Docker. While many rightly point out that Docker didn’t invent containers, it’s fair to say that the project ...

With Docker 1.5 freshly released, the creators of the software-containerization system are looking to fix its networking issues, which have long been a source of pain and criticism. The long-term ...

Docker is a hot topic this week. If you’re unfamiliar with what this technology is or what it means for your business, here’s a guide. Docker is both an open source project and the name of a startup ...

Containers can be considered the third wave in service provision after physical boxes (the first wave) and virtual machines (the second wave). Instead of working with complete servers (hardware or ...